Feminists Resisting Gendered Violence

An anthology of feminist perspectives combining arts-based interventions with scholarship, activism, testimony, and lived experience to address contemporary gendered violence.

At a time when gendered violence is intensifying, and even the language and mechanisms for addressing it are being constrained, this timely anthology foregrounds creative, critical, collective, and transnational responses built from the ground up. Across essays, artworks, testimonies, and reflections by a diverse group of contributors—artists, activists, scholars, and community organisers—the collection illuminates violence as legal and institutional, intimate and structural, historical and contemporary, visible and painfully ordinary. Through art, song, performance, archives, and digital practices, it renders legible forms of harm that are often marginalised or silenced in formal policy and legal discourse. In doing so, the collection redefines what counts as evidence, resistance, and justice precisely at a moment when such expansion is most needed. Going beyond documentation, it invites readers to think urgently and expansively about how gendered violence is locally named, remembered, resisted, and transformed. Offering both insight and inspiration, it highlights feminist collaboration across borders as a crucial resource for understanding and challenging violence in the present.

Contributing authors: Maria Krayem Abdo OAM, Megan Bellatrix Archibald, Maria-Alina Asavei, Hazel Atkinson, Sarah Easy, Pallavi Chakravarty, Sutanuka Bhattacharya (Suto), Christine Bell, Karen Boyle, Clayton Boeyink, Jan Breckenridge, Anna Bull, Urvashi Butalia, Mohamed A. Ali-Salad, Divya Chopra, Kamya Choudhary, Lydia Cole, Kyllie Cripps, Sumangala Damodaran, Adrija Dey, Maria Adela Diaz, Tina Dixson, Anni Donaldson, Catherine Donovan, Júlia Fernandez, Jean-Benoît Falisse, Bill Flack, Eliza Garnsey, Radhika Govinda, Masa Hilcisin, Claire Houghton, Anna Hush, Rachana Johri, Effie Karageorgos, Leonard Muzee Kazamwali, Rosemary Kayess, Seema Kazi, Arcene Kisanga, Anisa Said Kulmiye, Corrine Kumar, Ishtar Lakhani, Amy Life, Dixie Link-Gordon, Nick Mai, Amina Jama Mahmud, Rwitee Mandal, Sara Singh, Rachna Mehra, Kcasey McLoughlin, Lesley McMillan, Claire Mitchell QC, Naomie Amina Mirindi, Henry Ngongo Muganza, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud, Said A. Mohamoud, Muna Mohamed Hersi, Krishna Menon, Amina Mohamed Nor, Blandine Mushagalusa Ndamuso, Denise Mapendo Mukwege, Meenakshi Nair, Sharessa Naidoo, Juliana Nkrumah AM, Manjula O’Connor, Margie Orford, Lili Pâquet, Jasmeen Patheja, Karine Polwart, Lora K. Prabhu, Maha Krayem Abdo OAM, Kyllie Cripps, Mohammed Fahim Bishar, Sumangala Damodaran, Ulrike Roth, Ahmed S. Bile, Rukmini Sen, Garima Singh, Sara Singh, Zelda Solomon, Kirsty M. Stewart, Mailin Suchting, Mayur Suresh, Ruth Friskney, Esther Wanyema Baruti, Cat Wayland, Deborah White, Jo Zawadzka, Ann‑Christin Zuntz, Zoe Venditozzi, Partners for Law in Development (PLD).

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Hemangini Gupta

Hemangini Gupta is Senior Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics at the University of Edinburgh.

Fiona Mackay

Fiona Mackay is Professor Emerita of Politics and founding director of the interdisciplinary hub, GENDER.ED, at the University of Edinburgh.

Jan Breckenridge

Jan Breckenridge is Professor and Head of the School of Social Sciences and the Co-Convener of the UNSW Gendered Violence Research Network, UNSW.

Louise Chappell

Louise Chappell is Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, where she is also the director of the Australian Human Rights Institute.

Rachna Mehra

Rachna Mehra is Assistant Professor in the Urban Studies Programme at Ambedkar University, Delhi.

Rukmini Sen

Rukmini Sen is Professor of Sociology at Ambedkar University, Delhi.

Mailin Suchting

Mailin Suchting is Manager of the Gendered Violence Research Network (GVRN), UNSW Sydney.